TOUCH DETECTION DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20110096011A1
• Filed: 10/22/2010
• Published: 04/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC CASIO Mobile Communications Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: SUZUKI, Maho
• Granted Patent: US 8,803,820 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means

Abstract

A touch position calculation unit 113 calculating the touch position based on detected intensities at a touch panel unit 150 compares the detected intensities with a threshold to determine whether the touch is valid. Here, since display noise caused by the display screen of a display unit 132 affects the touch detection, the touch position calculation unit 113 acquires the display state of the display unit 132 from a display control unit 112. The touch position calculation unit 113 makes reference to a condition list stored in a memory 160 and sets up a threshold corresponding to the display state as the touch detection condition. Information indicating the display state includes the screen design typified by coloration patterns and the total gradation value corresponding to the voltage applied to the screen.

Claims

1. A touch detection device including:

a display unit providing screen display;

a touch panel configured on the display screen of said display unit; and

a touch detection unit detecting touch to said touch panel based on detection signals at said touch panel, wherein

said touch detection device comprises a condition determination unit determining a touch detection condition based on the screen displayed by said display unit; and

said touch detection unit detects touch using the touch detection condition determined by said condition determination unit.

2. The touch detection device according to claim 1 wherein said condition determination unit determines a threshold for comparing with said detection signals as said touch detection condition.

3. The touch detection device according to claim 1 wherein said condition determination unit determines said touch detection condition based on the display state corresponding to display noise due to the screen displayed by said display unit.

4. The touch detection device according to claim 3 wherein said condition determination unit determines said touch detection condition based on the relationship between the screen design of the screen displayed by said display unit and the display noise.

5. The touch detection device according to claim 3 wherein said condition determination unit determines said touch detection condition based on the relationship between the applied voltage of the screen displayed by said display unit and the display noise.

6. The touch detection device according to claim 5 wherein said condition determination unit further comprises a calculation unit calculating the total gradation value of said screen and determines said touch detection condition based on the total gradation value calculated by said calculation unit.

7. The touch detection device according to claim 5 wherein said condition determination unit determines a lower threshold value as said touch detection condition when said applied voltage is higher.

8. The touch detection device according to claim 1 wherein said touch detection device further comprises an error detection unit detecting touch detection errors,

said condition determination unit determines a touch detection condition based on the screen displayed by said display unit when said error detection unit detects a touch detection error, and

said condition determination unit determines a given touch detection condition when said error detection unit detects no touch detection error.

9. The touch detection device according to claim 8 wherein said condition determination unit determines a touch detection condition based on the screen displayed by said display unit when said error detection unit detects a touch detection error for the first time.

10. The touch detection device according to claim 3 wherein said touch detection device further comprises a memory storing a condition list associating information indicating said display state with touch detection conditions, and

said condition determination unit determines a touch detection condition based on the condition list stored in said memory.

11. An electronic device comprising:

touch detection device according to claim 1; and

an electronic device body housing the touch detection device.

12. A computer-readable recording medium in which programs are recorded wherein the programs allow a computer controlling a touch detection device comprising:

a display unit providing screen display;

a touch panel configured on the display screen of said display unit; and

a touch detection unit detecting touch to said touch panel based on detection signals at said touch panel to realize the following functions;

determining a touch detection condition based on the screen displayed by said display unit; and

detecting touch using the determined touch detection condition.